Reunification Counseling

The family therapy intervention aims to help the child(ren) have healthy and meaningful relationships with both parents. While the parents may have different views about the cause and reason for the child(ren)’s refusal and or reluctance to see a parent, they agree not only on the notion that children should have meaningful relationships with both parents but also that they each need to be a part of the solution to meet the reunification objective. Both parents understand that they will be engaged in the therapeutic work necessary to support the children’s contact with both parents. NWFP is a trusted source for reunification in Seattle, WA, Bellevue, WA, and Salt Lake City, UT. Core reunification goals are the following:

• Foster overall healthy child adjustment
• Facilitate the implementation of the previously agreed-to or court-ordered parenting schedule
• Restore, develop or facilitate adequate parenting and co-parenting functioning and skills
• Assist the parents in fully understanding the child(ren)’s needs for healthy relationships with both parents and the negative repercussions for the child(ren) of a severed or compromised relationship with a parent in their young lives and as adults
• Restore or facilitate contact between the rejected parent and the children(ren)
• Assist the parents and their child(ren) in identifying and separating each child’s needs and views from each parent’s needs and views
• Work with each family member to establish more appropriate parent-parent and parent-child roles and boundaries
• Correct the child(ren)’s distortions and replace these with more realistic perceptions reflecting the child’s experience with both parents
• Assist the child(ren) in differentiating self from others and exercising age-appropriate autonomy
• Assist each parent in distinguishing valid concerns from overly negative, critical, and generalized views relating to the other parent

Please contact our scheduling office or fax us to schedule a brief phone call and secure the forensic service retainer. Email is also encouraged at [email protected]. NWFP offers reunification therapy in Seattle, wa, Salt lake city, and Bellevue.